From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jun 13 20:49:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from fiend.securesys.com.au (fiend.securesys.com.au [203.38.213.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FB514C1C; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:49:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@fiend.securesys.com.au) Received: (from john@localhost) by fiend.securesys.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06078; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:17:02 +0930 (CST) From: John Message-Id: <199906141147.VAA06078@fiend.securesys.com.au> Subject: Re: reading files. To: jschwab@royal.net (Jason L. Schwab) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:17:02 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jason L. Schwab" at Jun 13, 99 02:46:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I heard that there is a way to read any file on a freebsd system as a > normal non-root user.. is this true? if so can some one give me some info > on this? thanks. If the raw device file for the filesystem were world readable, you could 'read' any file as a non-root user... J. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message